"WET" SHIPS IN U.S. PORTS.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4150, 22 November 1920, Page 4

"WET" SHIPS IN U.S. PORTS.

; U.S. sailors in homo waters are worse off for drinking facilities than members of the ' crews of foreign ships. • The Prohibition authorities have juet I ruled that non-Amorioan eallors, whilo J tarrying in U.S. waters, aro entitled to con- ! sumo alcoholic refreshment as rations, but J they must do their tippling while aboard > ship. If they a-ttompt to drink ashore 1 they becomo felons undor Undo Sam's j law. Yankee sailors cannot touch grog, even as rations, until their vessels havo passed tho three-mile limit. Tho Foreign Embassies and Legations in Washington are compelled to give a, good deal of time to tho difficulties arising out jof the grog ruling. It appears that foreign ! sailors now and then land some forbidden ! stuff for the purpose of selling it at fancy • prices. j Rooontly a ship arrived at Mobile, Alabama, with a considerable store of wet i goods hidden under tho coal. A sailor who ; had quarrelled with tho skipper while crews- , ing tho ocean denounced him to tho Ameri- ' can prohibition authorities, whereupon there • was a search and the supplies of drink were [ ■ seized. j